Evolutionary problems of Hegelian Dialectics.

When I read Marc's last post I instantly thought of the process of evolution and the state of symbiosis between organisms, or, more accurately, the failed forms of symbioses between the host organism and the malignant bacteria. Man cannot survive without the bacteria inhabiting his gut, and in fact the bacteria themselves have, in their evolutionary cycle, incorporated parts of other bacteria and cells to form their makeup. One great example is the cilia, or motile hair-like structures on some types of paramecium. They're little dinky legs that, in some past time, were themselves little critters until they found they could exist not by themselves, but only as a complement to a sessile organism, like the original single celled animals. That stage could even be considered a Hegelian Dialectic: the paramecium was nothing, the cilia were nothing, but their differences are what eventually defined them as a unified structure. So interestingly enough, certain forms in nature actually appear to embrace, if temporarily, this idea of opposition as a form of evolution.

Another example is the Thorn Acacia tree in Africa and the giraffe. This is a very famous example of evolutionary warfare. As the giraffes got better and better at eating the trees, they evolved longer and longer thorns. The tree being Mcain and the giraffe being Obama, we start to see the resemblance. The giraffe cant exist without the tree, the tree without the giraffe, but they are in constant opposition, and since neither would be alive without each other, and existence is the incontrovertible proof of perseverence... their differences, do in fact, define them as living organisms. You may be thinking "ya, but the tree will be fine, dipshit", except that's not how fucking evolution and population control works you communist bastards, the tree will outgrow it's land and suck the continent dry without any control until eventually no diversity occurs, evolution stops and desertification completely destroys the African continent because all that's left is dead trees and really annoyed giraffes, except they wont have an opposite to define themselves with, and they'll die.

That may not make a lot of sense in retrospect and actually has very little to do with Hegelian Dialectics, but it was still fun to think about.